Re: length of community strings

2009-04-17 Thread Bart Van Assche
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Mike Ayers mike_ay...@tvworks.com wrote: See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Datagram_Protocol.        Wikipedia as a technical reference?!  Please... If you don't trust Wikipedia, look up the appropriate RFC. You can find a reference to the RFC in

Re: length of community strings

2009-04-17 Thread Dave Shield
2009/4/16 Mike Ayers mike_ay...@tvworks.com:        Wikipedia as a technical reference?!  Please... What's wrong with that? Sure - if I want a definitive answer, then I'll go to the RFCs. But if I want a quick overview to get me started (and something that I might actually understand!) , then

RE: length of community strings

2009-04-17 Thread Mike Ayers
From: dave.shi...@googlemail.com [mailto:dave.shi...@googlemail.com] On Behalf Of Dave Shield Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 12:41 AM 2009/4/16 Mike Ayers mike_ay...@tvworks.com:        Wikipedia as a technical reference?!  Please... What's wrong with that? Sure - if I want a

RE: length of community strings

2009-04-16 Thread Mike Ayers
From: Bart Van Assche [mailto:bart.vanass...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 12:05 PM An UDP packet can contain at most 65527 bytes data. UDP packets that do not fit in a single Ethernet packet (max. 1500 bytes when not using GbE jumbo frames) get fragmented over multiple

Re: length of community strings

2009-04-15 Thread Dave Shield
2009/4/15 Richard Gipps richa...@triodatacom.com: There does not seem to be anything in the RFCs on maximum community string lengths. Correct. The specs implicitly allow an arbitrary length string (although there may be some limit imposed by ASN.1 or BER - I'm not sure offhand). Is there

RE: length of community strings

2009-04-15 Thread Mike Ayers
From: Dave Shield [mailto:d.t.shi...@liverpool.ac.uk] Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 12:25 AM 2009/4/15 Richard Gipps richa...@triodatacom.com: There does not seem to be anything in the RFCs on maximum community string lengths. Correct. The specs implicitly allow an arbitrary length

Re: length of community strings

2009-04-15 Thread Bart Van Assche
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Mike Ayers mike_ay...@tvworks.com wrote: From: Dave Shield [mailto:d.t.shi...@liverpool.ac.uk] The specs implicitly allow an arbitrary length string (although there may be some limit imposed by ASN.1 or BER - I'm not sure offhand).        Over a million

length of community strings

2009-04-14 Thread Richard Gipps
There does not seem to be anything in the RFCs on maximum community string lengths. Is there some defacto standard for maximum length. Does net-snmp impose a maximum length? Richard. -- This SF.net email is sponsored